Well House Consultants offer training courses in a wide variety of Open Source programming languages. Public courses run at our own training centre in Melksham, Wiltshire, England, and we can run private tailored courses to suit client needs at our centre, or on client sites.

Most of our subjects are niche, so delegates come from far and wide. We provide overnight accommodation in hotel rooms within our training centre, and you may book the course and accommodation as a single package, or come as a day delegate if you live within commuting distance or work for an employer who insists that overnight stays are made at a particular chain hotel.

Each Course runs from 3 to 9 times per year. Courses are all written by ourselves, lead by our own tutor, and limited to just eight delegates per course (public courses) so that the tutor has plenty of time to answer any questions that arise, and provide personal support during practical sessions.

Perl is breath of fresh air -
a powerful scripting language with a short
syntax and an impressive range of facilities that make for quick and
effective coding in applications from heavy data handling to web page
interaction, and from report generation through to systems admin tasks.
But with that impressive range of facilities, you get the ability to write
code that's hard to enhance and maintain, just as you get the ability to
write code that is clean and efficient. So this is a
language that you really need to learn from an expert rather than
self-teach.

• A 5 day Learning to program in Perl
course that covers programming and Perl fundamentals, the more
powerful "core" structures of the language that are required in most
applications, and some of the more common advanced topics. Suitable
for both newcomers to programming and those with limited prior programming
too.

• A 4 day
Perl Programming
course that covers Perl fundamentals, the more
powerful "core" structures of the language that are required in most
applications, and some of the more common advanced topics. Suitable
for delegates with prior programming experience.

• Our Regular Expression
Course takes you deeper into Perl's powerful string handling facilities -
one of the features that's brought this language to prominence.

If you've a group of three or more delegates who wish to learn about Perl
at the same time, a Specially Run Courses course can be arranged, and for larger groups we
can also run a Private Courses course at your offices. Such courses are tailored to
meet your requirements - please contact us to discuss the detail of what you
need. With Perl, we also have a huge range of extra training modules for
niche requirements, so private courses aren't limited in topics.

We use Perl ourselves as the data tool behind this site, and our
daily update is written
in the language. That's in addition to a number of contract and
bookkeeping scripts we've written over the years.

Perl was written by Larry Wall, who's still very much at the helm today.
A new version - Perl 6 - has just been released and there
are major factors that will come into play as people convert or change
Be assured that we're already well informed about these and
our current training will guide you towards futureproofing your code